Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus — believed to be the earliest known attempt to map the ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun ...

The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. This cross-fade montage shows a detail of the palimpsest under ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

Researchers used multispectral imaging to reveal the hidden text (which is traced in yellow above). Courtesy of the Museum of the Bible Collection. All rights ...

A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the hidden text is probably from the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, whose map of the stars — thought to be the first attempt to map ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus. This colored version of a 19th-century ...

A copy of astronomer Hipparchus’ map of the stars was discovered underneath the Syriac text of John Climacus’ “Ladder of Divine Ascent,” a treatise written in around 600 CE, according to a ...

Evidence points to the map being made by Hipparchus, the "father of scientific astronomy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Hipparchus was, so far as is known, the first to assign magnitudes to the stars, and his results have been preserved for us by Ptolemy in the Almagest. The classification of Hipparchus was a crude ...